{"id":42179,"date":"2021-11-11T09:22:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42179"},"modified":"2021-11-11T09:22:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:22:04","slug":"trumps-attacks-on-mcconnell-seen-as-prelude-to-2024-white-house-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42179","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s attacks on McConnell seen as prelude to 2024 White House bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Former President Trump is refusing to let his feud with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) die, instead amplifying it in what GOP strategists suspect is an effort to rev up the GOP base ahead of a 2024 campaign for president.<\/p>\n<p>More than anyone else in politics, McConnell, the Senate minority leader, is emblematic of the Republican establishment in Washington and Trump\u2019s repeated salvos against McConnell appear designed to make it clear to GOP base voters that Trump \u2014 despite his four years in the White House \u2014 would be the true outsider candidate in a 2024 primary.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump is refusing to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42180,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42179\/revisions\/42180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}